Frisch's switching from Coke to Pepsi

2:38 AM,
Jan. 5, 2014

Written by

Alexander Coolidge
Cincinnati Enquirer

After 50 years of serving Coke products, Frisch's Restaurants Inc. is switching to Pepsi and Dr. Pepper at all its restaurants - causing a chorus of protest on social media.

"Sooooo bummed you are changing to Pepsi products! No more vanilla Cokes :(," said one of several hundred people posting on the restaurant's Facebook page. More than 13,000 people left 300 comments, mostly negative, after reading the Enquirer's story on Facebook.

By the end of January, all 96 company-owned Frisch's Big Boy restaurants and 24 franchised eateries will convert soft drink offerings throughout Ohio, ...